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1. Light Table 0.4 released (chris-granger.com)
544 points by cf on April 30, 2013 | 189 comments
2. What a stupid idea (dcurt.is)
517 points by nate on April 30, 2013 | 220 comments
3. The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas (medium.com/what-i-learned-building)
442 points by drx on April 30, 2013 | 135 comments
4. Avoiding Burnout (andrewdumont.me)
401 points by jennita on April 30, 2013 | 105 comments
5. Why SICP Matters (cs.berkeley.edu)
312 points by wskinner on April 30, 2013 | 127 comments
6. Stay away from rebase (oneandoneis2.org)
295 points by oneandoneis2 on April 30, 2013 | 111 comments
7. Introducing Heka (blog.mozilla.org)
299 points by crankycoder1975 on April 30, 2013 | 57 comments
8. How to Choose a Profitable Niche (trevormckendrick.com)
260 points by trevmckendrick on April 30, 2013 | 36 comments
9. We Need A Standard Layered Image Format (shapeof.com)
246 points by ingve on April 30, 2013 | 142 comments
10. Introducing Trello Business Class (trello.com)
188 points by lispython on April 30, 2013 | 69 comments
11. Path fined $800,000 by FTC (ftc.gov)
177 points by tzm on April 30, 2013 | 50 comments
12. Exploiting a Bug in Google's Glass (saurik.com)
170 points by dpearson on April 30, 2013 | 31 comments
13. Git pull --rebase until it hurts (jrb.tumblr.com)
156 points by johnb on April 30, 2013 | 67 comments
14. Simplify (paulstamatiou.com)
157 points by PStamatiou on April 30, 2013 | 36 comments
15. Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta (banyan.co)
143 points by twog on April 30, 2013 | 102 comments
16. An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD (clay.io)
138 points by austinhallock on April 30, 2013 | 121 comments
17. Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents (hackerschool.com)
138 points by akaptur on April 30, 2013 | 81 comments
18. Google's self-driving car gathers almost 1 GB/sec (twitter.com/bill_gross)
133 points by hammock on April 30, 2013 | 73 comments
19. An open-source fully homomorphic encryption library (github.com/shaih)
127 points by cirwin on April 30, 2013 | 69 comments
20. French President announces pro-business measures (rudebaguette.com)
129 points by waxzce on April 30, 2013 | 152 comments
21. ‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time (wired.com)
126 points by Jaigus on April 30, 2013 | 48 comments
22. Restoring the first website (cern.ch)
124 points by ColinWright on April 30, 2013 | 23 comments
23. Dwolla Raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz (dwolla.com)
121 points by mschonfeld on April 30, 2013 | 50 comments
24. How we failed our YC interview (mr-mariusz.blogspot.com)
101 points by mariusz331 on April 30, 2013 | 68 comments
25. TCP/IP in Lego (righteousit.wordpress.com)
97 points by ldayley on April 30, 2013 | 26 comments
26. Illinois moves to legalise employer access to workers' social media accounts (aljazeera.com)
91 points by ramisms on April 30, 2013 | 60 comments
27. Turn a light bulb on with every new user or download (rigoneri.com)
89 points by rigoneri on April 30, 2013 | 39 comments
28. Making a game on the C64 (ludumdare.com)
90 points by leafo on April 30, 2013 | 37 comments
29. Richer countries are happier than poorer ones. Richer families are happier too (theatlantic.com)
90 points by MikeCapone on April 30, 2013 | 49 comments
30. Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens (ieee.org)
84 points by tysont on April 30, 2013 | 49 comments

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